Viktor und Viktoria (1933)

Viktor und Viktoria: Directed by Reinhold Schünzel. With Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Hilde Hildebrand, Friedel Pisetta. Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she’s discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome when she falls in love with Robert.

“I saw this film a number of years ago at a gay film festival at the Tel-Aviv Cinemateque. I knew that it existed — I think there must have been a credit for it at the end of the Julie Andrews film and just ran to see it while I had the opportunity. The audience seemed to be evenly divided between the gay lesbian community and German/Austrian old timers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEveryone seemed to have a really good time, despite the poor quality of the copy and the lack of Hebrew subtitles. And, it was quite delightful to overhear two elderly ladies talking about how u0026quot;Mamau0026quot; wouldnu0026#39;t let them see the movie when it first came out, and here the were seeing it today!”